9 Brilliant Tactics to Promote Your Blog Content on Facebook

There are countless ways to promote your blog content, but most of them are incredibly time-consuming. While reaching out to influencers or earning backlinks are both superior tactics, marketers rarely have the time to complete these tasks.

With Facebook Audience Network now reaching over 1 billion people every month, the social media platform is increasingly popular among marketers. And there’s a good reason for it: Facebook’s highly specific audience-targeting allows you to reach just the right people at the right time.

As you explore the value of Facebook content paid promotion, learn about nine best practices that help your content get more clicks at a lower cost.

1. Share your post on Facebook

The best way to start promoting your content on Facebook is free. Post a link to the article on your brand’s Facebook page. You can easily do it by copying your article’s URL to Facebook’s sharing box.

The post will organically reach about 2% of the people who “like” your page. But that 2% isn’t the main reason that makes sharing posts on Facebook worthwhile.

The success of your paid Facebook campaigns depends on its credibility – do people believe that the content is good enough to click on?

One of the best ways to prep your Facebook post for a promotional-boosted campaign is to get some “likes” and shares to prove its worth. When your target audience notices that others have “liked” and shared your post, they’ll be curious to find out more, and maybe even share it.

To get the first “likes” and shares under the post that you’re going to boost, ask your team members for help.

Right after publishing the post, send the link to your team, and ask everyone to “like” & share it with their friends. This way, your post will get its first “likes” needed to improve the Facebook ad’s click-through rate.

More “likes” = more credibility = more clicks

After you’ve collected five to 10 “likes” for your article’s Facebook post, move on to step two – boosting your Facebook post.

Tip: To get your ad noticed in an overcrowded news feed, use images with high-color contrast.

5. Write irresistible copy

Let’s imagine that you’ve written a magnetic Facebook post headline and found an awesome ad image. However, there’s still a high likelihood that people won’t click on your ad.

Now that you’ve caught your audience’s attention with a fascinating image, they’ll read your ad copy before clicking to go to your article. It is extremely important to nail the Facebook ad copy, or your boosted post description. Some of the best tactics for writing captivating promotional copy include:

Use testimonials and facts to increase credibility.

Ask questions to captivate people’s attention.

Offer solutions to common problems.

Use clear calls to action to show the next step.

Play on people’s emotions and ignite curiosity.

This Facebook post by KlientBoost follows all the best practices: It just makes you want to click and read the article.

6. Create A/B tests

If you’re unsure which type of headline, image, or ad copy works best, there’s an easy way to find out. By creating a Facebook ad A/B test, you can compare the results of multiple ad versions and optimize your campaign accordingly.

When promoting your articles on Facebook, it makes sense to test:

Multiple ad headlines

Different ad images

Two or more main description texts

Link descriptions

Target audiences

Ad placement

A study of 37,259 Facebook ads found that most companies only have a single ad in their galleries. Using a single ad doesn’t allow you to customize for your audience, discover what headlines work better, what ad images you should use more, etc. The more A/B testing you do, the less you spend on ads with little or no potential.

To set up a split test in a few minutes, use Facebook Ads Manager or a tool like AdEspresso. You’ll be surprised what you’re able to discover after running a few successful tests.

TIP: To ensure that the A/B results are statistically relevant, you need at least 200 clicks (500 clicks are even more helpful) before deciding which ad variation performs the best.

7. Target the right people

Define your audience to target only people who are likely interested in the article you’re promoting. Audience selection also can affect the cost per click.

To develop a long-term campaign or to ensure that you target the same audience for other campaigns, use the Saved Audience feature. You can target people based on:

Interests

Location

Age

Gender

Relationship status

Purchase behaviors

Education level

TIP: When promoting articles on Facebook, I like to keep the target audiences narrowed to less than 20,000 people to have more control over the ad delivery.

8. Use Custom Audience feature

Facebook’s Custom Audience feature allows you to target people who have visited your website or engaged with your Facebook page. They’re often the most valuable audience to target.

If you create a custom audience in Facebook and wish to target people who have visited your blog or other web pages, you’ll need to install Facebook Pixel first. Then you select “web traffic” in the Custom Audience feature. Your options include targeting:

Everyone who visited your domain

People who visited specific web pages

People who visited specific web pages but not others

People who haven’t visited your website for a certain amount of time

For example, if you want to target all the people who’ve visited your blog, you can target the URLs for your blog’s domain.

TIP: Create custom audiences of people who have read specific topics on your blog to easily advertise your new content on that topic to them.

9. Use emojis

We recently ran a small test with Scoro to see whether emojis have any effect on Facebook posts’ click-through and engagement rates.

Full disclosure: We didn’t have 10,000-plus impressions or a sufficient amount of clicks to say this A/B test is 100% statistically significant. Consider it a fun test to replicate.

We discovered that the ad with the red-flag emoji in the headline had the click-through rate of 0.846%, while the ad with no emoji had the CTR of 0.351%.

TIP: If you aren’t up on the latest emjois, use Emojipedia to help find the right one for your headline. You can copy and paste from its text-editing box.

Here’s an emoji-headline example by Buffer in the main text section of its Facebook post:

Conclusion

Promoting articles on Facebook is simple and can have a high return on investment. Don’t worry if it seems confusing at first. After you’ve set up a few campaigns, it’ll be like child’s play.

The next time you publish content and are looking for a way to promote it, create a Facebook promotion campaign by following these nine practices:

Share the post first on your Facebook Page.

Create a boosted Facebook post.

Use captivating headlines.

Include well-designed images.

Write irresistible ad copy.

Create A/B tests to see what works.

Target your audience.

Use the Custom Audience feature.

Add emojis to your Facebook ad copy.

Have any questions about Facebook ads and blog promotions? Leave a comment and let’s find the answer.

Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Feel free to include additional tools in the comments (from your company or ones that you have used).

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Author: Karola Karlson

Karola Karlson is the founder & author of Aggregate, the most upright blog about marketing, growth, and data. She’s also a contributor to marketing blogs like AdEspresso, HubSpot, and KlientBoost, and works as the Digital Marketing Manager at SaaS startup Scoro. Karola’s all about random cool ideas, growth marketing, and taking new marketing approaches on a test drive. Connect with her by visiting her blog or on Twitter @KarolaKarlson.

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Thanks for the tips. Where does the organic reach stat (“The post will organically reach about 2% of the people who “like” your page.”) come from? I’m trying to find stats like this one to show to potential clients. Thanks again!

Excellent tips Karola! I would like to stress something about sharing the post:
When you ask your team to share, tell them to tag a couple of relevant friends who are in different countries. This will help your post reach new geographies and thus gain far more reach. It shouldn’t be spamming. It should be done only to relevant people who fit into your buyer persona! If your team doesn’t have relevant international friends in their list, it’s time they did some networking. Remember, just one share is enough to reach a whole new nation!

http://aggregateblog.com/ Karola Karlson

Oh wow that’s an excellent idea! ✨ Can’t wait to try it with the next blog post share.

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I liked the point that images tend to perform better than mere posts. Uncluttering the post updates is also great.

http://aggregateblog.com/ Karola Karlson

Thanks Sienna! ? ?

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Another great article from the impressive Karola Karlson! Love readying about the uses of copy, images and emoji’s!

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Thanks a bunch David! ?

Whatcha think – are emojis going to be a must-have in the next 6 months?

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These are very practical suggestions although I’ll need time to pick the ones that work for me. Thank man

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I have often noticed that despite very specific targeting, my Facebook ad doesn’t seem to reach the right kind of audience and the likes come from people who look like they have nothing to do with my product.Am I missing something?

Saba Sedighi

Great post. Would you recommend boosting a piece of content after it’s run its course organically vs. created it as an ad ? Have you seen a difference in reach?

http://aggregateblog.com/ Karola Karlson

Hey Saba,

We usually post the article on Tuesday and run a small paid promotion right away.
As people are more likely to read articles during the weekend, we add another bigger promotion on Friday and schedule it until Sunday.